In this paper we present a cooperative negotiation protocol that solves a distributed resource allocation problem while conforming to soft real-time constraints in a dynamic envir...
Behavioral norms are key ingredients that allow agent coordination where societal laws do not sufficiently constrain agent behaviors. Whereas social laws need to be enforced in a...
The University of Michigan Digital Library (UMDL) is an open system that allows third-parties to build and integrate their own profit-seeking agents into the marketplace of inform...
Sunju Park, Edmund H. Durfee, William P. Birmingha...
We envision a future in which the global economy and the Internet will merge and evolve together into an information economy bustling with billions of economically motivated softw...
Jeffrey O. Kephart, James E. Hanson, Amy R. Greenw...
We consider collusion in multi-unit auctions where the allocation and payments are determined using the VCG mechanism. We show how collusion can increase the utility of the collud...